Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
PAUL SIMONThere are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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